Sentences with phrase «on universal moral principles»

How else do all the world religions and non-religious members agree on universal moral principles?

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He also denies both that the biblical grasp of universal moral principles is irrelevant to Eastern cultures, and that the West has a monopoly on those principles.

The principle constituting this universal social practice is itself meta - ethical, in the following sense: the social action prescribed is explicitly neutral to all moral disagreement.4 On the face of it, one might object, a prescription of universal rights can not be explicitly neutral to all such disagreement because it is not explicitly neutral to disagreement about the principle itself.

Their chief focus is on helping people develop a personal and saving relationship to Jesus Christ and to live in peace with their neighbors by cultivating an obedience to universal principles of moral law.

His goal was to promote «a universal rational religion that eschewed meaningless, superstitious rituals, and focused instead on a few simply moral principles, above all to love one's neighbor as oneself.

But he will not admit that the uniqueness of the moral and Christian human being stands outside a structure of specific universal moral principles founded on essences.

The second point is to draw on an analogy with language and ask whether there might be something like a universal moral grammar, a set of principles that every human is born with.

Here, we show that religious belief — even amidst a conflict centered on religious differences — can lead people to apply universal moral principles similarly to believers and non-believers alike,» said Jeremy Ginges, associate professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research.